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Mr.
Ritter received his B. Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology
and a B.A., with a major in Fine Arts, from New York University.

In
his forty year career, Mr. Ritter has worked on some of the largest
construction projects in the nation, such as being one of the inspecting
Architects on the Sears
Tower, and some of the
smallest, including designing several newsroom broadcast sets for the local
Sarasota T.V. station.Mr. Ritter has
been very active in state and local professional organizations, including
spending several years on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of
the American Institute of Architects.

Mr.
Ritter has worked on projects in Florida, New York, Colorado, Illinois and North
Carolina.

Richard B. Miga,
Architect

Mr. Miga received a B.P.S. from Buffalo University
and has several years training in computer technology.

After working for several years in Washington,
D.C. specializing in corporate facilities, Mr.
Miga came to Sarasota
twenty-five years ago to work on local and international projects.He helped develop and holds the copyrights to
several computer aided architectural design and building management programs.

Mr. Hamm received his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Florida.He has thirty years experience designing and producing construction
documents for retail commercial enterprises, professional offices, and single
family and multi-family residential projects.Mr. Hamm is also a design specialist in the fields of energy
conservation and sustainable building technology, and he process LEED documents
for the firm.

John Manley, Architect

Mr. Manley was educated and worked for several decades in England before coming to Florida.

Jim Finch, Senior CAD
Draftsperson and Designer

Mr. Finch received a B. Arch. From the University
of Virginia and he also has a
certificate from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fountainebleau, France.He has over forty years experience in design,
construction documents, specification writing and reviewing construction in
progress.

Megan Fornuto, Computer Drafting
and Design

Mrs. Fornuto received a certificate for architectural Computer
Aided Drafting and Design from the CDM Institute in Mt. Laurel, NJ.She worked in the construction industry, then
produced computer drafting documents for an Architect of custom homes in NJ,
then came to Florida
in 2006 and has been associated with Ritter, Miga since then.

Company Computer
Systems

The company currently uses the ARCHICAD computer aided drafting
system for the majority of our design and construction document drawings, and
we use various spreadsheet and word processing systems to produce
specifications and other technical information needed for the projects.

Engineering and other
Services

When needed to complete projects, the firm employs outside
consultants in the fields of Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, Ventilation,
Plumbing and Fire Protection Engineering.Also when needed to complete design contract and client requirements, we
will employ Landscape Architects, Civil Engineers, Commercial Kitchen Designers
and Interior Designers.We choose these
professionals based on their experience and ability to satisfy the project
goals.Many times we recommend these
consultants to the client or contractor who will employ them separately form
our firm, but we will always cooperate fully with all of the professionals
working on the project to produce the best design results possible.

The firm provides LEED certification applications and documents,
energy conservation design and sustainable building and community design using
the services of both our staff and our consultants.